France's Financial Strain Analyzes Reparations Picture
London reports ministers aim to ease French security concerns amid reparations debate. Caillaux and Painleve surface in the discussion as Montagu Norman of the Bank of England considers changes to pound sterling and British underwriting. Ambiguity surrounds American bond issues and potential shifts in branch activities and embargo policies.
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London
Montagu Normor
Bank of Eng
England
Metropolitan gallery rule on gifts and collections
Public opinion favors keeping gifts intact for museum displays while critics argue in favor of conditional endowments. The Montana copper king's gift is praised but deemed less altruistic if not unconditional, as galleries struggle to assemble cohesive periods or schools without breaking the original owner’s grouping.
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William A. Clark
Thele Efit
Montana
Death claims two well known residents here
Miss Kathryn McCabe, 20, daughter of Edward and Sarah McCabe, died Tuesday night at the McCabe home after years as an invalid. Funeral services for Kathryn will be held in Nanty Glo, with interment at St. John's Cemetery in Windber. In a separate notice, a funeral for another local resident will be conducted at 9:06 Friday morning in St Mary's Church, with interment in St. John's cemetery.
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East Philadelphia Street
Eliott &,. White
D. D
Methodist Episcopal Church
Oakland Cemetery
Kathryn
McCabe
Misa
Kathryn McCabe
Edward
Sarah McCabe
Nepal
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
St. John’s Catholic Church
Windber
Hayes Wheeler trial ends amid defense plans and witness delay
Justice Department completes its investigation as Wheeler testifies. Defense signals potential verdict move after contested evidence and a telegram ruling. In Bulgaria, a bomb attack on Sofia cathedral kills 150 as unrest and factional fights intensify with unlikely government support. A comic panel mix closes with a troop of light jokes and quips on daily life.
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Justice Department
Hayes
Wheeler
New York
Lucett
Walsh
Montana
Bulgaria
Sofia
Moscow
Points on People from a Indiana town report
Local notes list residents and visitors: De Bowden and Bowden family, physician ex-Indiana, Jack Ness of Indiana and Watton on a fishing trip, Stewart of Philadelphia, C. G. Holloway of Miller Bond Co. visiting Clint Myers. J. E. Parnell back from Johnstown. Dick Slater home from Frescureh. Blair Taylor from Philadelphia. Judge J N Langham en route to Pittsburgh court. John L. Simpson Marion Center on Indiana business. A. W. Jeffries Grant supervisor in Indiana. Ray Cook Burnside visiting town. townsfolk who saw Pirates vs Cubs in Pittsburgh. Mrs. J. F. Ebey returning from Florida. ad seeks rag and scrap buyers with contact details.
Fire Devastates Chicago Grain Elevators
In Chicago on April 23 a massive blaze destroyed two large Rosenbaum Grain Corp elevators on the South Side. The fire burned through the night, blocked railroad and trolley traffic, and ignited 15 smaller fires that endangered the district. Wind carried embers up to ten blocks, but firefighters kept a general conflagration from starting. Loss pegged at 3 million dollars. the elevators stood along the Chicago river.
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Chicago
Rosenbaum Grain Corporation
Chicago River
Market at noon shows strength in oil and steel stocks
New York April 23 The market featured stronger tone in motor and dependent steel stocks with Maxwell, and a moderate rise in oil and railroad shares. Oil issues led advances as Standard and Independent oils rose with limited supply. Industrial leaders were largely inactive while specialty stocks like Coca Cola and United States Steel remained focal.
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New York
Maxwell B
American Petroleum Institute
United States Steel
Baldwin
Ladium Steel
International Nickel
United States
Hiodrome
Famous Players
Coca Cola
Ottis Elemator
Foundation Company
Ateady
Sumatre Tech
Headless Body Mystery Baffles Chicago Police
Chicago April 29. Police search for the identity of a young woman whose headless body was found in a lover’s lane near the Budlong golf links. Captain O Malley says the killer’s psychology will identify the criminal. Evidence shows a deep abdominal incision and slashing. Time since death estimated at one to two years.
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Chicago
INS
Budlong
Golf
Martin J. O'Malley
O'Malley
Thomas Foley
Foley
Represented All Right Tourists Visit Northern Village
A party of tourists visiting a northern village asked their guide about religious facilities. He explained no church exists and denominations meet at the institute with a morning Anglican service at nine, Catholic at ten, Presbyterian prayer, followed by Methodist and Wegleyan services. An elderly Jewish tourist lamented lack of representation, prompting the sharp quip that they hold the mortgage.
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Church of England
Mistaken Identity at Funeral Echoes of a Misidentified Corpse
A country parson, described as eulogized, was deceased in a funeral scene. A mourner, attempting to glimpse the body, was refused to rise until the service ended. The mourner exclaimed about debt, questioning whether the person buried was the correct brother, accusing the speaker of not knowing him well.
West Virginia strike intensifies across coal fields
In West Virginia on April 28 the union and operators clash over a coal field strike. Brackett of the Northern West Virginia Coal Operators Association reports production near normal in Grafton Elkins Fairmont Clarksburg Morgantown, with daily car totals around 815 to 935 and only a 15 percent drop. Bittner of the United Mine Workers says about 10 000 miners in Panhandle and Northern district now align with the union, while Brooke County non union mines halt.
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Fairmont
W. VA
West Virginia
George S. Brackett
Northern
West, Virginia
Backett
van A. Bittner
John L. Lewis
United Iine Workers
Panhandle
Brackett
Brooke Co
Reversal of Antal Order Sloth’s Arboreal Life
The sloth, a purely arboreal Central and South American animal, spends most of its time upside down. It hangs from branches and seldom leaves the trees, living a life adapted to the canopy.
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Central
South America
Chalk composition and uses described in 19th century text
Chalk is a soft earthy limestone variety. It forms mainly from sea bottom accumulations of shells and minute organisms. When mixed with a binding substance it serves as a writing material with wide applications.
Why He’s Notions of a Real Man and a Health Tonic
A reader dismisses a skeleton thin suitor while a sales pitch touts Mc Coy’s Cod Liver Oil Tablets as a miracle weight gain cure. The oddly phrased ad copy promises pounds of healthy flesh in weeks and urges readers to buy the product at local stores.
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Agnes
McCoy
Bentiey
Man Dies for Nieces Deaths in Fosterville
Harry D Williams was hanged at the county jail for the murder of his nieces Cynthia and Necia Foster at Fosterville on November 26. The execution followed his pleadings of penitence as he faced the gallows, smiling and waving to jurors while being led to the trap.
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Fredericton
N. B
Harry D. Williams
Hhall
Cynthiand Necia Foster
Fosterville
Williams
Dean Neales
Dean Neale Seld
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Bbuyer
Leah
Indiana
Western Cartridge Company
Leonard
Rion
Ower
Coldwell
Aubo Agous
Toy Cartel
Tedd Bowden
Wre Weil
Meine
Jack Ness
Ienonm Yeutane Watton
Clinton
Jack
Bacest Stewart
Reg
Philadelphia
C. G. Holloway
G. L. Miller Bond Company
Pittsburgh
Clint Myers
Miller Company
J. E. Parnell
Johnstown
Dick Slater
Fiescureh
Biair Taylor
J. N. Langham
John L. Simpson
Marion Center
A. W. Jeffries
Grant Township
Ray Cook
Burnside
Pirates
Cubs
C. Dinsmore
Hugh Wiley
Herd Long
Use Lytle
Fred Myers
Buster
Mra
Max Isreahell
Streat
AIK
All Right
N. Y
M. Tel
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Ajax
Baldwin Loco
Gen Motors
Nor Parate
Hayes Whee
Kan
City
Kelly Spring
Lehigh Valve
Magna
Mar, Oi
Mid. States
Ui Continental Oi
N.Y
Now Pac
Pan. Am. Pet
Pennock
Ere
Steel Weed
Royal Dutch
Rock Island
Phebeebeeee
Sinclair Oil
South Rails Sreterer Pity
St. Paul
Bbdae
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Willys Overlund
Redmond & CO
New Brunswick
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